I've Run Masterminds for 26 Years. Almost Everyone Gets the First Step Dead Wrong.

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Most people, when they decide they want a mastermind group, go looking for a group.

That is the mistake right there.

They join a paid program, they sign up for someone's membership, they get put in a room with five strangers who all paid the same fee, and then they wonder why the conversations feel shallow.

Why people disappear after week three. Why it never quite builds into something they actually count on.

The reason is simple.

You cannot manufacture trust.

You can only grow it.

Here is how I have always done it, and after 26 years, I have never found a better way.

You start with one person!!! PERIOD!!!!!

Not a group.

....One person.

Someone you met at a seminar, an event, maybe through someone you both respect.

Not your best friend from college.

Not your cousin.

Someone you saw show up in a room and thought, that person thinks differently than most people in here. Someone who earned your respect before you ever had a real conversation with them.

You reach out.

You say something like, "I want to start a small weekly group, just the two of us to begin.

We meet every week, we hold each other accountable, and then we each find one more person to bring in. You in?"

Four weeks together, just the two of you.

No agenda, no fancy format.

You learn how each other thinks.

You build the kind of honesty that only comes when there is no audience and no performance.

Then, together, you each bring in one more person.

Now you are four. And something changes at four.

There is enough perspective in the room that you get ideas you genuinely never would have found alone. There is enough accountability that showing up actually means something.

You run it for a few months. You decide if you want to grow to five or six.

No more than six. Everrrrr!!!!!

The size matters because intimacy is the whole point. In a room of fifteen, you present. In a room of five, you actually think out loud. That is where the real work happens.

And then there is the rhythm.

Once a week.

Same day, same time, no exceptions for the first ninety days.

Weekly is not about convenience.

Weekly is about momentum.....OH BOY.. .this is Such a HUGE POINT...

Monthly masterminds feel good but change very little because too much time passes between sessions.

You forget your commitments.

Life fills the space.

But when you know you are sitting down with your group again in six days, you actually do the thing you said you were going to do.

That is the whole game.

The right people, the right size, the right frequency.

Not a program.